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ABUSE

Neerkol orphanage probe
raises systemic abuse issues (Sydney
Morning Herald) Apr 22 - Sadistic nuns at a notorious Queensland orphanage dished out abuse in
a toxic environment that festered due in part to inadequate government
scrutiny, supervision and training, a royal commission has found.

ARTS
& ENTERTAINMENT

When Waleed Aly met
Susan Carland (The Australian)
Apr 22 - Waleed Aly was 16 and living with his parents when Susan Carland, also
16 at the time, knocked on his door.

How my camera helped me
re-focus on my faith (The
Guardian, Australia) Apr 22 – (Opinion: Jim Grover) One Friday afternoon in late summer of 2014, I
walked into a church that I had never entered, even though it is just around
the corner from my home of 17 years, in Clapham, south London.

ISLAM

Grand mufti sues News
Corp's Daily Telegraph for defamation (The Guardian, Australia) Apr 23 - The grand mufti of Australia is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for
defamation over two stories and a front page it ran in the aftermath of the
Paris terrorist attacks depicting him as the three “unwise” monkeys.